Nash Family of Sudbury

The Nashes of Sudbury

William Nash (my 3rd great grandfather)

William Nash was the eldest son of 10 Nash children, born to Thomas Nash (1782-1868) and Elizabeth Woolley Nash (1785-1855), both lifelong residents of Sudury, Derbyshire, England. He was born on 22 May 1803 and baptized in the Sudbury Parish Church (Church of England). On 29 Aug 1822 (age 19), he married Mary Harrison in the town of Norbury and Roston.[1] She was also 19. Together they had 12 children, 6 boys and 6 girls. He worked all his life as an agricultural laborer. He died on 7 Mar 1865, at the age of 61.

Mary Harrison (my third great grandmother)

Was born in 1804 in or Longford, Derbyshire, England. Married: 22 Aug 1822 in Derbyshire. Her first child was born within 3 months of the marriage. She died 5 Sept 1875 in Sudbury and was buried 5 Sept 1875 in the All Saints Churchyard.

1871: still living at Oaks Green, as a widow, with two sons Arthur and Edward.

b. abt 1829 in Sudbury. At age 22, she married Robert Wallis. She died at age 57 in Warwickshire.

1851: working as a dressmaker

...(Mary) Ann Nash Price [my 2nd great grandmother]

Born 11 Oct 1832 in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England. She was baptized 28 Oct 1832 at the Brethren United Congregation (Moravian) Church, in Ockbrook, Derbyshire. Her parents may have had a flirtation with this early form of Methodism (much stricter than the Church of England), because she and her next sib Hannah Jane were both baptized here. But it seems the family went back to the Church of England.

1851: living with parents; 1861: living with parents, working as a carpenter (?). 1871: Living with wife and family on Mackley in Civil Parish of Sudbury, working as a Labourer. 1881: Living on O Green, in civil parish of Sudbury, working as Estate Labourer [Ag Lab]. 1891: Living in town of West Broughton, ecclesiastical parish of St. Cuthbert, and civil parish of Doveridge; working as a farmer. 1901: Living at Leathersley, civil parish of Sudbury, working as a Farmer (classified as Employer, as opposed to worker or own account)